BY EMS Foundation
The EMS Foundation’s recent on-site investigation into South Africa’s Provincial Nature Reserves reveals a dire situation. The majority of these reserves are unable to fulfil their conservation objectives due to poor management, insufficient funding, infrastructure decay, and strained community relations.
Key challenges include widespread poaching, invasive species, unresolved land claims, and chronic understaffing. Alarmingly, many reserves are now effectively abandoned or exist only on paper, some have even been repurposed for private use or hunting operations.
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